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With two of his children in tow he joined other parents and youngsters for a half-hour spin on the specially constructed rink at Holy Trinity Primary School, in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, on Saturday.

The night before, the nearby village of South Newington recorded a temperature of -12.4C (9.7F) - the lowest this season according to the Met Office.

Unsteady on his feet? The Prime Minister on ice at the Holy Trinity Primary School in Chipping Norton on Saturday

Tanya Harrington, from the school's Parent Teacher Association (PTA), which hired the rink to raise cash, said: 'It was very nice to have him here, to see him being a dad.

'They seemed to have a very good time. He was very good.

'He was here both as the local MP and a dad. We had told his office about it and he was in the area and wanted to come along.'

Even before the Prime Minister's attendance the PTA had sold all 950 tickets for the skating sessions which ran from Friday night through to last night.

Mr Cameron's minders and staff kept their reputations and bodies intact by staying off the ice.

The day out was not the first time the Prime Minister has been pictured on the ice. In 2009, he was pictured with his family at the opening of the Winter Wonderland in London's Hyde Park.

Putting the row over Stephen Hester's bonus and the payout to rail bosses to one side, Mr Cameron poses for a picture with five-year-old Zoe Pearson (left) and Ivy Walters, aged seven years

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